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This user afterwards is used by the BVQ services & UIs to connect to the database. Whenever you change the password of the user remeber to change it in the other BVQ modules (GUI DB connection profile, etc.)

Connect to MongoDB with mongo CLI

1. Establish a connection to MongoDB via mongo CLI (use CMD or PowerShell) (see https://docs.mongodb.com/v3.4/reference/program/mongo/)

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   mongo --authenticationDatabase admin -u bvq -p Passwort

   (default location of binaries = C:\Program Files\SVA\BVQ\bvq-mongodb\bin, put in PATH variable to access from outside the directory
   change username -u and password -p to your credentials)

Change the password of an existing user

Establish a connection to MongoDB via mongo CLI (see Connect to MongoDB with mongo CLI)


1. The user information is configured globally for the entire MongoDB within the admin DB, so you have to switch to this DB.
   List existing dbs with show dbs command

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   PS C:\Users\XXX> mongo --authenticationDatabase admin -u bvq -p Passwort MongoDB shell version v3.4.4 connecting to: mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017 MongoDB server version: 3.4.4 > show dbs admin 0.000GB bvq 0.401GB local 0.000GB

2. Switch to admin db with use admin

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   > use admin switched to db admin

3. Use db.changeUserPassword() to change the password for the user logged in (see https://docs.mongodb.com/v3.4/reference/method/db.changeUserPassword/)

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   db.changeUserPassword("bvq", "NEW_PASSWORD")

   In this example password is changed to NEW_PASSWORD for user bvq
   

   After executing this command the password will be changed

   No FormatPS C:\Users\XXX> mongo --authenticationDatabase admin -u bvq -p Passwort MongoDB shell version v3.4.4 connecting to: mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017 MongoDB server version: 3.4.4 2017-12-05T18:50:07.771+0100 E QUERY [thread1] Error: Authentication failed. : DB.prototype._authOrThrow@src/mongo/shell/db.js:1459:20 @(auth):6:1 @(auth):1:2 exception: login failed PS C:\Users\fschenke> mongo --authenticationDatabase admin -u bvq -p NEW_PASSWORD MongoDB shell version v3.4.4 connecting to: mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017 MongoDB server version: 3.4.4 > exit bye PS C:\Users\XXX>

List existing users

1. Establish a connection to MongoDB via mongo CLI (see Connect to MongoDB with mongo CLI)
   
   

2. Switch to admin db with use admin

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   > use admin switched to db admin

3. Use db.getUsers() to list existing users (see https://docs.mongodb.com/v3.4/reference/method/db.getUsers/)

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   > db.getUsers() [ { "_id" : "admin.bvq", "user" : "bvq", "db" : "admin", "roles" : [ { "role" : "root", "db" : "admin" } ] } ]

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